Custom logic for dynamic routes

Developer help
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As mentioned in this post, I’m looking to migrate a rails app to Ghost. I currently have a membership base that I would move to a Ghost membership, but also have courses and purchases tables` that will need to be in a separate DB.

I can add a new column to the purchase table that matches the Ghost member ID, but from what I can see there is no way to access Members via the API, which would mean the pages showing the Courses would need to be part of the Ghost app as custom pages/routes in order to access this.

My question then is there any way to add logic to a custom page/route that would be able to pull the relevant courses data from a separate DB? Or is there a better way to match a Ghost member with an external DB so that these pages could be s a separate application/micro-service?

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@aaronmoodie Did you ever find a solution to this? I’m looking to integrate more member-driven features into my Ghost installation but I’m not sure the best way to approach it. Thanks.

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Hey @SandorWeisz , no I’ve not really been able to find a way around this at all. I’m currently looking at using Ghost primarily for content, and then running headless and managing all the memberships and payments myself via a nextJS app. Still working it out, but don’t think I’m going to be able to use Ghost as I’d hoped.

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I was considering using the @member.uuid value, on the front end, to make a call to an external app’s API, which I would build. Would this work, or would it be too vulnerable to data exposure? The UUIDs are sufficiently long, and the data on the other side (for me, at least) isn’t too sensitive.